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THE EVIDENCE OF POSIBILITIES
January Seminar 2004:
We had before
us a new octave: the Dominicans Group International Seminar, which we always
celebrate in January, this year it was dedicated to deepen our understanding of
the Four Prophets (Muhammad, Buda, Lama, and Jesus), and the Sacred Impulses
(Hope, Acceptance, Faith, and Love) and their practice. The participants also presented
information of the four holy cities:
Around 66 people
met during 10 days to share a common view. The daily program was more than 15 hours: from 7:
am till
Some of the Seminar participants wanted to share
their experiences.
Below, some extracts of their writings:
“When the
extraordinary becomes normal and the unexpected is continually occurring (even
though we are not expecting it), a higher plane of breath and motion is
achieved by everyone simultaneously. To operate on this level twenty-four hours
a day for nine days (and beyond) is wondrous and strange yet completely
agreeable and fitting at the same time. This is where we are meant to be. This
is where our true home begins. I watch as everyone of
us reaches this place and dwells here in a kind of perfect ease and real joy.
The ones who are departing earlier than the full nine days must tear themselves
away with an act of sheer will. Our personal understandings of HOPE,
ACCEPTANCE, BELIEF, LOVE AND HIM begin to crack open
and reveal themselves for what they truly are. For what they
actually are in Reality. Our Beings fine-tuning
themselves to this frequency, this vibration of connection with each other and
HIM, THE BELOVED. As we become HOPE and HOPE becomes us, as we travel
through ACCEPTACE and BELIEF to approach this LOVE; this LOVE that we only
begin to taste yet soothes us to a very core that did not even know we had. We
become LOVED. And effortlessly pass it on”.
From: J.
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This
seminar seemed to provide doorways and openings into the world of the
miraculous. The means were provided and one could see, more clearly than
in ordinary life, this is what I need to do. It was a very intense
seminar; the fire was turned on very hot. The fire was there
to burn remnants of false personality if one wished to offer up into the
flames; and then what remained was the possibility of being oneself, and
as oneself feeling the deep connection.
The small group on negativity helped provide grounding. We were asked to
focus early in the week on specific questions: 1. What
is my negativity feeding? 2. What impact does my negativity
have on myself and on others? One could get very close to it during the
week. My negativity usually manifests in typical, recognizable
forms; it has a personality and a taste. And the task is not
to avoid it, but to look at it as the tool that is given me to work on
myself. As much as I would prefer to just go past it, or work
on someone elses's negativity (!), this, this
is what I need to see, to accept in to myself, and then perhaps, if
I am vigilant and have help, to realize I have a choice whether to go there or
not.
From: N.
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Four
sent from above, with four distinct sacred impulses, living and breathing into
four different great cities …
…Not
much can be said of the experience of brothers and sisters in the Work who
ventured together, defying space and time, to discover the kingdoms within and
above, warm places with cool living water which we were able to share during
the days of seminar in embraces, smiles, meals, open eyes and real contact,
more real than anything we ordinarily live, places of flaming solar plexuses
and beating, breathing hearts, for weary and lost seekers who continually risk
everything that seems dear to attempt to touch upon the sublime with some
success, thank God…
From: V.
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“My experience of being in Belcutassi Movements Group: Some classes where for most part just plain struggle for most
of the group while others where filled with satisfaction,
accomplishments. The force, unity and group work was very
present keeping the effort alive and strong (especially in some of the
intricacies of the foot patterns for me). In the fasting day the energy seemed
somehow less focused, Jose kindly made it easier, I appreciate his
ability to balance the "difficult" and the "possible" in
the classes. Some times I observed myself smiling, enjoying the challenge
that each class presented. The final result, "The Four Prophets"
Movement Presentation , it was an experience outside time and space, I
felt as if we were pulsating together in eternity”.
From: A.
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“I think of
that energy that must go into a wish, strong enough to create that which it
longs for. I can see that it wasn’t me. That it took so much more than that. It
took all of us to want the experience of “love” so strongly that we made it
become a reality. It asked what it needed from us and we chose whether to keep
it for ourselves or give it away. Only one of these is truly rewarding. Even
though it may have been brief we all felt that ‘something” and shared it with
one another because the pain of giving wasn’t that great and far less than the
love that filled us. There is something
here, among us, above all earthly things that feeds us and allows us to grow in
experience. I am filled with gratitude because of this”.
From: S.
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“During and
after the seminar I have heard descriptions of the experiences, both grand and
miniscule, of the participants. Folks talk of feeling closer to God, feeling
closer to each other, feeling closer to themselves. Sometimes
the experiences talked about the sense of unity felt among us, the
participants; sometimes it had to do with having a better understanding of
things previously not understood at all. Yet, for me the seminar was an experience
that is best left undefined; best left to the experience itself and not to the
expression of what that experience was or was not. For me it would be an error
to make a before and after comparison of my seminar experience, or for that
matter to try to compare the seminar experience to anything. I’d rather simply
continue with the profound sense that the experience left me surer than ever
that I’m moving in the right direction”.
From: K.
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“The seminar
has been a trip to the deepest part of my being, where the emotions and
sensations experienced were so familiar that it’s impossible to believe that I
had forgotten them. To realize that I’m not alone has given me the greatest
happiness of my life and has made me understand why every moment I must ask for
forgiveness”.
From: T.
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“In my case
I can only say there was magic. We came out of the Seminar with a debt with the
source of the real Work for the gift that was given to us for nothing in
return.
All the
observations were like a mirror to see one another with the same difficulties;
no matter the level of understanding of each individual.
I felt in
the movements how we received the force of the group. No matter the difficulty
of the movement that we had before us: we must try to do it as if it were the
last thing we were to do before death; we must fight and make demands on
ourselves and try to add parts, perfect gestures and give grace to the body.
This seminar
has left a print, with the intention that it will serve us to arrive at Lent
with more quality, without caring for the difficulties that are forth coming”.
From: E.
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